nClimGrid Historical Observations Energy Indicators

The Climate Resilience Information System (CRIS) provides data and tools for developers of climate services. This layer has historical variables in decadal increments from 1950 to 2020 derived from historical observations of air temperature and precipitation. The variables included are: Cooling degree (F) days Heating degree (F) days This layer uses data from the NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (nClimGrid). Further processing by Esri is explained below. For each variable, there are mean values for the defined respective geography: counties, tribal areas, HUC-8 watersheds. The process for deriving these summaries is available from the CRIS Website’s About the Data. Other climate variables are available from the CRIS Data page. Additional geographies, including Alaska, Hawai’i and Puerto Rico will be made available in the future. Geographies This layer provides historic values for three geographies: county, tribal area, and HUC-8 watersheds. County: based on the U.S. Census TIGER/Line 2022 distribution. Tribal areas: based on the U.S. Census American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Area dataset 2022 distribution. This dataset includes federal- and state-recognized statistical areas. HUC-8 watershed: based on the USGS Washed Boundary Dataset, part of the National Hydrography Database Plus High Resolution. Time Ranges Historic climate threshold values (e.g. Days Over 90°F) were calculated for each year from 1950 to 2020. To ensure the layer displays time correctly, under 'Map properties' set Time zone to 'Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)' and under 'Time slider options' set Time intervals to '1 Decade'. Data Citation Vose, Russell S., Applequist, Scott, Squires, Mike, Durre, Imke, Menne, Matthew J., Williams, Claude N. Jr., Fenimore, Chris, Gleason, Karin, and Arndt, Derek (2014): NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Gridded Dataset (nClimGrid), Version 1. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5SX6B56. Data Export Exporting this data into shapefiles, geodatabases, GeoJSON, etc is enabled.